Google Chat – Voice and Video upgrade on the way

So there has been a little buzz about the fact that Google will be updating it’s voice and video chat in the near future. The upgrade should be focused around you being able to add more than one participant at a time and make it just that little more robust.

Rishi Chandra, a Google Apps product manager commented:

This [GMail’s current capability] is the first step in a much broader set of features we hope to roll out around video chat [and voice] capabilities

I certainly look forward to seeing what Google have to offer. Will this end up as a rival for Skype?